Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth)
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Founder @spindl_xyz. Wrote 'Chaos Monkeys' (https://t.co/LHo7HbmRXC). Wearer of many hats. גם זה יעבור 🇺🇲🇪🇸
The Network State
Joined December 2007
We’re ecstatic to announce that @spindl_xyz is joining @coinbase and the @base team to build the future of onchain advertising at the company that’s bringing the world onchain.
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Every once in a while you run into someone doing Uber in a $100k car and you wonder about the economics of that. (Currently riding inside a Mercedes EQS.).
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The fact the catchphrase is “tax the rich” and not “help the poor” is telling.
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Every item in this SF Walgreens is under lock and key. There’s practically nothing you can buy without having to call an associate to unlock something. I’ve never been in a country that lives this way.
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Spanish food is better than French food, and the only reason Americans think otherwise is their (unjustified) elite perception of French culture, and their equally unjustified disdain (if not ignorance) of Spanish culture.
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My Singapore driver informs me that robbery carries a minimum sentence of three years in jail and six strokes with a cane. “One stroke almost kill you.”. “Other country you pass out drunk on the street…phone and wallet gone. In Singapore, nobody touch them.”. No shit.
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Once in my teen years, we were taking a family photo and someone suggested I kneel in front to fit everyone into the frame. My flinty Cuban grandma suddenly interjected 'de rodillas nunca!'. 'On your knees, never!' . She ordered me to stand instead. Thinking of that now.
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Accidentally ordered a bottle of wine in Portugal as I assumed the prices were by the glass because I live in an exorbitant dystopia.
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What Elon is doing is a revolt by entrepreneurial capital against the professional-managerial class regime that otherwise everywhere dominates (including and especially large tech companies), and that same PMC (which includes the media) is treating it as an act of lèse-majesté.
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I have thus far maintained my silence on the Apple situation as I've sought to settle things amicably with the company that I admired, and at which I hoped to build the future of ads privacy. As they however are not maintaining their silence on the matter, neither will I.
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Typically it’s a middle-aged guy and it’s clearly their personal car. Alimony? Child support? Lifestyle?.
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It finally happened:. My Waymo got a ticket and there was existential confusion from the officer about who or what was being ticketed. They just stare at the empty driver’s seat and then leave it on the windshield. The car drives away, indifferent.
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@BuenoForMiami Because a woman got killed by a brick falling off a crumbling facade in the 70s, there was a law instated that required inspections every 10 years. with the loophole that you could avoid inspections while presumably working on the facade. Since renting scaffolding is cheaper.
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OpenAI hiring more and more engineers at ever higher salaries tells you what you need to know about the impact of AI on software engineering.
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The fact humans are returning to space exploration, paid for by putting up a network of internet satellites and technically feasible due to reusable rockets that magically land on their rear ends, has to be one of the greatest business and engineering feats ever. This is history.
Commander @rookisaacman has egressed Dragon and is going through the first of three suit mobility tests that will test overall hand body control, vertical movement with Skywalker, and foot restraint
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Elon simply defenestrating the entire HR regime, the ESG grifters, the Skittles-hair people with mouse-clicking jobs who think themselves bold social crusaders rather than a parasitic weight around any organization’s neck, is an intolerable overturning of the social order.
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Twitter *must* fail after the purge of such a former elite. For if Twitter does not fail, if in fact it manages to emerge stronger than before, then what sort of example would this set for every other organization similarly captured by this elite? Unthinkable.
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If Elon takes over, there’ll be a slew of left-wing Gabs and Parlers as the super-woke threaten to leave Twitter, they’ll all fail like the right-wing versions did, and it’ll be glorious to watch the “just build your own” people sulk and wail.
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A mother had enough time to hear about the shooting, drive 40 miles (!), yell at the police to do something, get cuffed by them, talk herself out of the cuffs, and then jump the fence and rescue her kids. before the cops dealt with the situation.
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5. Apple has issued a statement that clearly implies there was some negative behavior by me during my time at Apple. That is defamatory and categorically false.
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Everyone who isn't a complete fucking moron (or a white elite, but I repeat myself) understood this is exactly where 'defund the police' actually ends up: the wealthy and powerful afforded private security, and everyone else in a state of anarcho-tyranny.
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Back in a NATO country. Those who mercilessly criticize the liberal order should take a step outside it every now and then. They might appreciate it more.
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For the millionth time, the media is fabricating a moral panic around their belated discovery that Facebook does what they do, but better, more scalably, and more profitably.
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Canceling a popular podcaster for old episodes everyone knew about and enjoyed at the time (but which are suddenly ‘problematic’, meaning susceptible to cynical use in power games) is *almost* like a company firing an author for a bestselling book they once wrote. Almost.
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As with anti-Asian violence, the surge in anti-Semitic violence in the US will not be duly declared a real problem until it’s the ‘right’ people doing the violence. Then it will be repurposed for ongoing political partisanship. The morality play must be properly cast.
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One of the mysteries future historians will be forced to unravel is how a generation living during an historical oasis of peace and prosperity, and at the very peak of material comfort and indulgence, convinced themselves they're living in the end of days.
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I occasionally ponder what it would take for me to feel motivated to make someone lose their livelihood, to make them suddenly unable to support themselves and their family, to make them an object of ostracism and ridicule. It would take a lot. I don’t think it’s ever happened.
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It’s hard to imagine a contemporary Western leader who, faced with invasion by a nation famous for its brutality, would possess the courage to stay at their post until the bitter end.
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It's fascinating the outcry at the thought of Elon buying Twitter: We don't want this guy with the wrong values running the public square!. Meanwhile one of the biggest Twitter shareholders is. Saudi Arabia.
@Alwaleed_Talal @Twitter @Kingdom_KHC Interesting. Just two questions, if I may. How much of Twitter does the Kingdom own, directly & indirectly?. What are the Kingdom’s views on journalistic freedom of speech?.
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"The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.".
I was once a child with a dream looking up to the stars. Now I'm an adult in a spaceship looking down to our beautiful Earth. To the next generation of dreamers: if we can do this, just imagine what you can do #Unity22 @virgingalactic
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Social media didn’t ruin society; it simply unmasked it.
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There's a Jewish folktale about King Solomon asking a counselor for an adage that would make the happy man sad, and the sad man happy. Said counselor, perplexed, asked a jeweler in the bazaar for advice. The jeweler inscribed on a ring: 'This too shall pass.'. שבת שלום
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Going back to SF from Singapore is. a transition. Having dinner in a neighborhood spot, and there was someone clearly having a mental health episode inside while loitering. Nobody, not clients or staff, do anything. Wild to live in a place where social norms are just gone.
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When the wealthy laundered their guilt through Catholic indulgences instead of NGOs, we at least got Michelangelo and gorgeous cathedrals out of it.
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What tremendous historical irony. The Arch of Titus commemorates the Roman triumph over the Jewish rebellion in Judea, resulting in the destruction of the temple and the Jewish state, and sparking 2,000 years of exile that ended with the founding of the state of Israel.
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Trying to explain to a left-wing Israeli how it is the Western left aligns itself with a genocidal theocratic death cult instead of the Israeli left, which is an absolutely crunchy old-school collectivist kibbutz left, is an intellectual journey, let me tell you.
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Full self-driving in the Tesla is incredible. You enter a destination, and the car just drives you there, including lane changes, veering, offramps, traffic lights, turns, the works. Nobody will routinely drive again. We’ll refer to the manual driving era as the Dark Ages.
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Wartime Lviv is cleaner and more orderly than SF on a good day.
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The irresistible male urge to walk across the entire city alone after a night out rather than take any form of transport.
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Autonomous vehicle technology is really out of control. This is almost Terminator levels.
Waukesha will hold a moment of silence today, marking one week since a car drove through a city Christmas parade, killing six people and injuring scores of others.
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Turns out that peak happiness as a tech entrepreneur is running a bootstrapped software company in Tulsa, OK which has a monopoly on funeral accounting software and a $20M top line, while most everyone in Silicon Valley is a fool chasing expensive dreams.
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Bootlicker.
John Cena apologized in Chinese on Sina Weibo after calling Taiwan a country during an interview promoting Fast & Furious 9
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@fchralph If the choice is this or the anarchotyranny rampant in most large US cities, I'll take it. I wouldn't call this a police state (that's Cuba). It's a society with strictly and severely enforced laws. Different story (to me at least).
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Those citing “Oppenheimer” as a cautionary tale for AI about the need to regulate dangerous technology may wish to consider that, after years of nuclear activism and regulation, we’ve kept its murderous uses and have essentially banned its unique promise: clean, limitless energy.
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4. I did not 'part ways' with Apple. I was fired by Apple in a snap decision.
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My 6-yo, loudly on a flight, with zero warning:. "Mommy says you're turning into a Jew.".
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I might be taking this remote work thing too far.
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@medeabenjamin Aw…such a shame you couldn’t have your little white savior experience with Cubans. Is this what you were expecting?. You condescending fool, presuming to lecture those who’ve experienced the Cuban reality with your clueless views on the matter.
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Once you internalize that modern liberalism is about freeing the individual from unchosen obligations, but that a well-lived life--according to any tradition, faith, or psychology--is about living within the limits and duties of a higher calling, our current insanity makes sense.
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BREAKING: Convoy of black vehicles fill SF streets as ousted Open AI leader attempts coup to reseize power.
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3. Apple was well aware of my writing before hiring me. My references were questioned extensively about my bestselling book and my real professional persona (rather than literary one). This set of prominent Valley VCs and execs are all willing to assert as much under oath.
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1. Apple actively recruited me for my role on the ads team, reaching out via a former colleague to convince me to join. Apple found my experience in the ads space, specifically around data and privacy, highly relevant to their efforts and persuaded me to leave my then role.
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After this election, nobody will ever trust either polling or prediction markets ever again.
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2. I upended my life for Apple. I sold my WA residence which I built with my own hands, relocated myself, shut down any public media presence and future writing aspirations, and resolved to build my career at Apple for years to come.
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The eternal mystery of how an Indian Chipotle-style franchise hasn't taken off yet.
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I don’t know about you, but the Afghanistan thing has me utterly bent out of shape. Rare these days to feel that giddy rush of History happening before your eyes, but this was it. Something has clicked in the cosmic order, an era is over, and matters will be forever different.
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My last time in Paris, I visited one of the few remaining Jewish delis in Le Marais. There was a squad of Legionnaires in front protecting it. I thought: This would be like the 82nd Airborne protecting Katz's Deli in New York. Thank God the US is different. Well, here we are.
Jews being attacked on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Can’t say I didn’t see this coming 😞 @jews_of_ny
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“Behind all of Elon Musk’s bloviating and attention-seeking is a small man who is simply not very good at anything.”.
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Someone just passed the 4M mile mark on United, and the whole crew including pilots has come out to thank them and give them a card.
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Ozempic was invented in Denmark. The Danes are making so much money off Americans, it's impacting their interest rates. Americans spend 2x more of their GDP on healthcare than Europe: they're not subsidizing, they're getting price-gouged. Americans are 2x fatter than.
do Americans ever get tired of subsidizing the rest of the world
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Hungary is to the American right what Denmark is to the American left: a tiny European ethno-state improbably held up as fetishistic example, either for the magic choo-choo trains or pro-family tax policies, and both utterly irrelevant to a pluralistic nation-empire of 330M.
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In Burnham’s formulation, this new managerial class would supplant the former business-owning bourgeois and even capital itself as the elite ruling class. Most woke ‘labor’ scandals in tech are an entitled middle-management class at odds with founders.
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It's admittedly somewhat ironic that I'm beating Steve Jobs at the moment.
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The most misunderstood intellectual in modern times is Francis Fukuyama (@FukuyamaFrancis), whose much-maligned masterpiece 'End of History' actually called much of what we're seeing today. In the latest Pull Request, I summarize this essential work.
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Future historians are going to have an absolute blast writing us up.
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I'll be afraid of the right when I lose my job over writing something that runs counter to their politics.
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It’s noteworthy that during the tumultuous Cuban Revolution, when the state came for the children and was going to send them to education camps is when everyone freaked out and put their kids on flights out in a panic (my parents among them).
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In the future, everyone will be canceled for 15 minutes.
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All this Elon Man of the Year hate from people who've never built a thing: obviously if you were to pick one prominent person who's mostly likely to be remembered a century from now, it's him.
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Sitting at a neighborhood Mission bar, and the group of FAANG engineers behind me is leaking more alpha than CNBC has transmitted in a decade. SF is back, baby.
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“People in those days had convictions. We moderns only have opinions, and it takes something more than opinions to build a Gothic cathedral.” -Heine.
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Singapore is so solarpunk. Half the city looks AI generated.
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Funny how these epiphanies happen after the wrong person gets fired.
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